Sundrop Fuels, ThyssenKrupp Partner for 50 Million-Gallon Louisiana Drop-in Biofuels Project

Source: Renewable energy access

The company’s inaugural plant near Alexandria, Louisiana, will yield up to 50 million gallons of renewable gasoline annually while also serving as proving ground for Sundrop Fuels’ proprietary biomass conversion technologies that will be used for future ...
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Searching for an Efficient Way to Make Methanol

Source: SciTech Daily

This image, made with a high-resolution transmission electron microscope, shows atoms on the surface of an industrial catalyst used in methanol production. A study by scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Germany reveals ...
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Drumbeat: May 25, 2012

Source: The Oil Drum

Toronto economist Jeff Rubin's point of view in this thorough and articulate polemic is blunt and, at first glance, unsettling. There's an odd symmetry to Jeff Rubin's take on the energy world these days: His logic about the effect ...
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Iran shipping sanctions causing oil and methanol markets angst (podcast)

Source: Platts.com

Platts news director for Asia, Thomas Hogue, speaks to Takeo Kumagai, Tokyo oil correspondent, and Ng Baoying, associate editor for Asian petrochemicals and soft commodities, on the continuing implications of the Iran ...
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Mission dragsters run on gas, drivers on adrenaline

Source: The Province Daily News

Hugh Ridley knows what it feels like to launch a dragster and abuse his body with the quarter-mile now covered in just over five bone-rattling seconds at nearly 270 miles per hour in Top Alcohol Dragster. He also knows what it’s like when his back tha ...
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IMF Warning on Oil Prices Shows Urgent Need for Alternative Fuel Sources, Fuel Freedom Foundation Says

Source: iStockAnalyst

The Fuel Freedom Foundation says that a new warning from the International Monetary Fund underscores the urgency of opening markets to competition from alternative fuels such as natural gas, ethanol, methanol and elect ...
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Pivotal role for proteins -- from helping turn carbs into energy to causing devastating disease

Source: PhysOrg.com

Research into how carbohydrates are converted into energy has led to a surprising discovery with implications for the treatment of a perplexing and potentially fatal neuromuscular disorder and possibly even cancer ...
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Real-time monitoring of RNA splicing in living cells moves step closer with novel fluorescent probe

Source: PhysOrg.com

Figure 1: Schematic representation of the reduction reaction between the dye precursor and triphenyl phosphine within the lasso structure of an LaRNA molecule. When these probes meet at the junction (A), fluorescent light is emit ...
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Dirt Showdown review

Source: Edge Magazine

The story of racing games could perhaps be told by a mode, and that mode is Eliminator. Lap after lap of competition scraps the weak – or unfortunate – until just a handful are left. Skill, experience, strategy and brawn are what it takes ...
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